Eating is one of the simplest and most profound mindful practice. We often eat while doing other things such as talking or reading. We can learn a lot about the mind by eating without distractions and making it as much of a meditation practice as sitting and walking.
1. Always wash face, hands, and-if possible-feet before meals.
2. Never eat before sunrise or after sunset. If you must eat after sunset, avoid all sour and acidic foods.
3. Meditate briefly just before eating (or offer grace) to raise energy and increase appreciation for food.
4. Always eat only when right nostril is operating; drink only when left is operating.
5. Eat or drink only when sitting down.
Anandmurti Gurumaa is an enlightened mystic and a contemporary master. Gurumaa’s pragmatic teachings show the right way of living. Thus Spoke the Master presents the illuminating words by Gurumaa in response to the questions asked by seekers at different times.
Is it fate to be born in a particular family or just an accident?
You are born accidentally to a particular pair of parents? You are not on this earth because your parents wanted ‘you’. When man and woman meet on the physical level and do not use any contraception, the woman is likely to get pregnant. And at that particular time, when she is conceiving, whichever individual soul is around, it just rushes. And there is not only one, but hundreds of souls, which are waiting to be born; so they just rush. And the one that wins the race enters the mother’s womb. Most of these souls are devilish. The reason being, no good soul would rush like this. Unless and until they are asked to come, they won’t.
With the first stirring of dawn, about ninety minutes before the sun appears over the eastern horizon, comes a great surge of energy on the planet. Sanskrit scriptures call this time Brahma mahoorta or Amrit Bela. Brahma Mahoorta means the ‘Time of Brahma’, pure consciousness, the divine self. It signifies the time of the ‘nectar of life’.
During these crucial minutes, the body’s glaze of the health increases, as do physical strength and power of concentration. One is filled with fresh energies, inspired to undertake any kind of work and any project initiated at this time is always completed. Difficult problems requiring great mental effort are most easily solved, and memory is at its sharpest. Sick persons feel released from the agonies that kept them awake and troubled through the night, often falling into deep, replenishing sleep.
If you want to achieve anything, if you want to create anything, if you want to reach somewhere, effort is needed. But if you want to relax, then definitely no effort is required. Only one thing is required to relax: Your non-doing. Don't do anything to relax. Just relax. Let go off all bondages; let go off all desires for the moment at least, then nothing can agitate you.
As you will begin to live with awareness, being in your center, only then you will taste what real relaxation is. Center of our being is ocean of stillness and joy. Be in the present, be in this Now. See the present moment which is happening around you: the blue sky, giggles of children, chirping of birds, floating clouds and if what you can hear is just noise then even noise will be rhythmic.
Don’t let mind rule you, you take the reins of life, live every moment listening to yourself.
How old are you, mullah?
Someone asked,
‘three years older than my brother.’ mullah answered.
‘How do you know that?’ ‘reasoning. Last year, i heard my brother telling someone that i was two years older than him.
A year has passed.
This means that i am older by one year…i shall soon be old enough to be his grandfather.
"Never lie down to sleep with your head northward or westward" is a common injunction given from time immemorial by the Indian mother to her children. Almost every Hindu- orthodox or heterodox- observes this dictum of his ancestors, but he doesn't know the rationale or significance behind the dictum, although it has been handed down to him through generations. For example, Vishnu Purana says: "O King! It is beneficial to lie down with the head placed eastward or southward. The man who lies down with his head placed in contrary directions becomes diseased." The Varshaadi Nool says: "Sleeping eastward is good; sleeping southward prolongs life; sleeping westward and northward brings ruin." The Mahabharata says: "Men become wise by sleeping eastward and southward."
Which direction you should sleep? East? West? North? South???? Is it really important to know the right direction
What is meditation?
If your answer is to get relief from stress, to experience joy, to kill time, to know God -Wrong! Absolutely wrong! Utterly wrong! Don't be surprised.
Meditation is moving in the inner zone of emptiness, where stress can never touch you. It is exploring the inner space where you remain absolutely untouched from all ill effects of mind and samsara. This inner space is there and we need just the right method to move there, once you have understood and experienced nothing can bring you down from that timeless zone. Being in this zone means, being an ocean of joy. It is not just getting little glimpses of joy for some time and then back in rut. This had been a great dilemma of all meditators; as long as they are doing it, they feel good, elated, happy, enlightened, but moment they come out of the place where they meditate
God chooses my destiny and my paths of learning; my parents, my family,
my roles as different characters, my life’s each and every occasion.
Each and every moment is designed by dear lord and I flow with his will.
We share the most deep rooted bond among all other relationships of this world. I am not only part of her body from now, but also a part of her soul and she's my first soul mate whom I can always rely upon. God told me that he resides in all of us and everything that he has created and he has left this to us to find him in our heart & soul. I found my God in my mother. To whom this soul will always be thankful for nurturing me and giving me the opportunity to step into this world. It is the most beautiful & wonderful of communions among all other relationships in this universe. I, The Soul Feel Thankful To Thee (Lord) For Blessing Me With Wonderful, Loving And Caring Mother, To Whom My Soul Will Always Be A Slave. Because I Can Never Repay For What My Loving Mother Does For Me....Love You Lord...Love You Mother.
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Occasionally, when you look out of the window, focus of something very natural, for example the sky; if you don't have anything natural, then may be a potted plant, or an animal or anything that you can consciously focus on. It will be of great help, as it will take you out of the mind. Human made things can also make you aware- for example, a car. But it's easier to connect with the tree and be free of the mind, than to connect with the car, but after awhile you can also do it with the car.
Just as man needs to be
free and work for himself
and be a provider, so should woman be allowed to educate herself to the maximum
she wants and choose her own course of life and
to be her own provider.
